I'd like to start this post by congradulating you on starting programming. It's not as bad as most people think and it is a great way to bring out the creativity within you.
Secondly, I'd like to say that this game sounds great! Many areas which are not typically included in most rpgs seem to be exploited in this game. The house feature is one of note in my mind.
Lastly, I'm happy to see that you're going to work hard on the accessibility. Now, anyone who's ever talked to me before will know that I'm not crazy about accessibility; I'm very willing to try things that most people consider "unaccessible." However, phantasy rpg didn't constantly appeal to me because it was tedious skipping through those immense amounts of adds. I know, if this game is to be free, there will be adds, but I'm sure there are ways to make add skipping faster with a screen reader. I know a good bit about html myself, so if you want suggestions, feel free to message me.
Good luck!

PRPG was running on a fairly bad server for awhile there, but even when it wasn't, ads have always been a bit of a slowdown. I can't promise there'll be no ads...in fact, there likely will be ads...but CX2 is right about the shortcut. We'll try and keep the ads down.
One thing of note, though (and no, this is by no means a request, just a tidbit of knowledge): on PRPG, at least, if you wanted to get rid of the ads, donating 10USD to the game would've done it, plus given you 16 free AP and 10HP to play with. We are going to have in-game bonuses of some type for player donations, but I'm not sure if ads will be part of them. I'm not asking for donations when we go live, not by a longshot, but if you really don't like ads, and if we do things the same way, it could at least be a viable option.

I would love to be able to let people in all by myself right this instant, to give them a look round, but it's unwise for a couple of reasons and besides, I don't have the access in-game to assign passwords for other players. I can do almost everything else except that, but need a coder to do that. Either way, we shouldn't be too long. My guess is anywhere from, say, four weeks to three months, no telling exactly how long. It's the battle file that needs the most cleaning up.

Sk8Kid, what was your username on PRPG and do you still play? I probably at least heard of you at some point, unless you were an on-again off-again type of person who tried a handful of times since September and never went back. A lot of dirty water has run beneath that particular bridge, I'm afraid, and that game is nowhere near what it once was. I have hope for it, I don't exactly want it to die (I worked hard on it for over a year and a half...why would I?), but it's ill, and wobbling.

Thanks for the vote of encouragement though. The two things in HTML I don't know how to do yet are style sheets and tables, and both are absolutely integral to web design, I know. I'll have to learn those, then get my nose into PHP and SQL.

I agree about tables. I've played around with CSS in a project at college too and it's not too hard.

For tables for example:
<table> starts a table
<tr> starts a table row
<td> starts a table cell, I presume the D stands for detail.
Adding the slash closes thus:
<table>
<tr>
<td>
first row, first cell
</td>
<td>
first row, second cell
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
Second row, first cell
</td>
<td>
second row, second cell
</td>
</tr>
</table>

You're going in horizontal rows from left to right in the cells, and the rows come out top to bottom.

Shoot, that's not hard at all! Thanks for the tips on tables, I'll go write all that down and practice a little.

Stat-crunching, to a small extent, is part of any RPG, even Sryth. It's the core of LotGD as well, if you want to be literal.
Just as an aside, the world is hopefully going to be quite large, with many different areas to explore. Some features of areas/quests will be:
- terrain that may help or hinder you in combat or in exploration (fog, rain, snow, ice, rockslides/mudslides, cliffs and tides and undertow)
- riddles (or sets of riddles which vary from player to player) for the answers to quests
- fights that don't rely on pure stats to win (and subsequently, some creatures that adjust themselves to your stats and fight accordingly)

I am very much against "go kill this beast, get EXP!". If we do that, there'll be a reason, and it will be well-documented. We want a large writing team almost purely so that several different people can work on overarching history and such.

LotGD, Hogwarts Live, Eragon Online...they're all based off exactly the same basic code, and they're cute enough if you want something to do, but those games are ALL ABOUT  grinding, basically. There are lots of features, no question about it, but it's all about how much gold and how many gems you can get before beating the boss and starting from scratch with a few advantages.

No no. The game I'm working on is not the kind where you start over, though there will very likely be either one grand plot or several plots (similar to Sryth, in that several quests make up a story). But unlike Sryth, where you basically click within the framework of a quest, this one will be a bit wider (think Final Fantasy, where you might get a quest in a village, and can do whatever you please in most cases before tackling that quest, including stopping halfway through). This will be the rule, but there may be exceptions.

There will be skills linked to noncombat features and skills linked to combat. If you would rather be a merchant than a fighter, or if you would rather be a weaponsmith or an alchemist or a thief...knock yourself out.